A joke by a 'good kid' spreads like a virus through the Internet and text messaging, fueled in part by the principal's attempts to squelch it.December 15, 2007 What began as a student's joke about a gun at Diamond Bar High School quickly warped into an ominous warning of a Columbine-style attack -- complete with […]
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Joke of attack freaks out school, principal ill-prepared
Guns N' Roses Lyrics Cause Teacher to Lock Self in Classroom
Karaoke can be scary, but threatening?A school custodian's impromptu after-hours karaoke performance prompted a police response when a teacher thought she was being threatened over the loudspeaker.State police say the teacher at Booth Free School barricaded herself inside a classroom Wednesday when she mistook someone singing a Guns N' Roses song over the public address […]
Fatal Dress Code
TORONTO - A Canadian man has been charged with murdering his own daughter, and her friends say the two clashed over her refusal to wear a Muslim head scarf. Police have not commented on a motive.Aqsa Parvez, 16, of Mississauga, Ontario, was rushed to hospital in critical condition Monday after a man made an emergency […]
Iceland High School Student Dials Bush's Phone Number
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Waiting Too Long to Have Sex Linked to Sexual Dysfunction Later in Life, Study Says
Lawlz! Pwned! Having sex at early age has long been linked to a laundry list of health problems from an increased risk of sexual disease to an increased risk of cancer.But now, Columbia University and New York state researchers say waiting too long to have sex may carry its own risks, according to an ABCnews.com […]
Superintendent Terminates Home Education Program Without Authority
On November 5, 2007, the superintendent of General McLane School District notified a Home School Legal Defense Association member family that he had terminated their home education program because they had failed to submit quarterly reports to his office.According to the superintendent's letter to the family, he had approved their program at the beginning of […]
List of high school dropouts
There used to be this nice long list of semi-famous people who dropped out of school on Wikipedia, but it got deleted. So I salvaged the old version I had saved, and put it up here.[link]
I've fled the country to stop social workers taking my baby
She is, on first impressions, just like any other first-time mother. The cot and the pram are on order, she has bought more cuddly toys than she will ever need and she has even given her little girl a name
Illegal immigrant rescues boy in desert
PHOENIX - A 9-year-old boy looking for help after his mother crashed their van in the southern Arizona desert was rescued by a man entering the U.S. illegally, who stayed with him until help arrived the next day, an official said.The 45-year-old woman, who eventually died while awaiting help, had been driving on a U.S. […]
US plans case against AP photographer
NEW YORK - The U.S. military plans to seek a criminal case in an Iraqi court against an award-winning Associated Press photographer but is refusing to disclose what evidence or accusations would be presented.ADVERTISEMENTAn AP attorney on Monday strongly protested the decision, calling the U.S. military plans a "sham of due process." The journalist, Bilal […]
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